As of July 2018 we have purchased 3 Osprey Packs for ride leaders. This is a reference photo of the current setup. Thanks Matt for doing the hardware purchase.

I’ll update our Ride Leader Hydration Pack page with an inventory list, ideas for managing documents on a phone, instructions for the pack, how to replenish first aid kit, etc. It is a work in progress.

Master link not shown, we need a couple of those to store in the pack pliers.

To check your status, log into the Pit Zone. Student-Athletes: Your “Practice Ready” status will be dispositioned Yes or No. Coaches: If you have a red exclamation mark next to your name, you are missing at least one of the requirements.

This isn’t aimed at HPMTB riders, but we should promote this for novices!

From league email

We’re going to get #morekidsonbikes this summer, thanks to Giant Bicycles and Liv Cycling!

Dirt School 2018 is a Minnesota High School Cycling League program for mountain biking to teach student-athletes the necessary skills to be a capable and well-informed mountain bike rider. This new program is geared for students who have never been on a mountain bike, are new to mountain biking or who want additional biking instruction to build their skills. The goal of this program is to empower youth through the sport of cycling to be proficient cyclists, whether they are interested in cycling as a life-long sport or racing in the high school league.

The MN League is partnering with with the Minnetonka School District and Community Center for this pilot program.

Dirt School Program Dates:

July 10th – July 26th

7th – 12th grade students (Fall 2018)

Bikes are available if needed, however a student can bring their own bike to use. All bikes brought by students will be given a safety inspection.

Have you registered in the Pit Zone lately and wondered about your race category?

1) Most riders get assigned a category based on their grade.

2) Riders from last year who are already racing in a category above their grade level have been assigned the higher category (So a 10th grader who rode Varsity last year will still be assigned the Varsity category).

3) For some of last year’s riders, In the next few weeks the MN League will be doing automatic upgrades based on their last year’s race performance. An announcement will be made on this page when that has taken place.

Look at the Minnesota Rulebook for category placement rules. You can find a link on this webpage

If you go to www.hpmtb.org on a desktop machine you see a team photo and a menu at the bottom. It’s not obvious that you can scroll down to read about the team (or click the down arrow by the bottom menu).

It took me a while to realize that not everyone would scroll down. So I moved the team information to the About HPMTB tab. Every other tab except the Home tab opens already scrolled down to show content.